05-26-2018 06:17 PM
This is my Rant Du Jour;
I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject.
Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses having to find the elusive southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment. I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender. Though I love her dearly, admittedly, I don't know her personally.
Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift. Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.
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Separating your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.
05-26-2018 06:26 PM
TL/DR
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift.
Seems sensible.
05-26-2018 06:29 PM - edited 05-26-2018 06:31 PM
@reallynicestamps wrote:TL/DR
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift.
Seems sensible.
But not simple for those of us on mobile devices 🙂
@duggmillsMany others feel the same way. This has been discussed here and the blues said different options are being looked into, maybe you could pop in here and ask when they are going to fix this?
05-26-2018 07:10 PM
@duggmills wrote:This is my Rant Du Jour;
I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject.
Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses having to find the elusive southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment. I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender. Though I love her dearly, admittedly, I don't know her personally.
Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift. Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.
_____________________
Separating your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.
I agree!
05-26-2018 07:12 PM
Or just drop the quote feature altogether. I answer poeple all the time and have never used the feature as I find it annoying.
As to speeding through posts, simply scroll past the ones with quotes in them.
05-26-2018 07:18 PM
@kaelykat wrote:Or just drop the quote feature altogether. I answer poeple all the time and have never used the feature as I find it annoying.
As to speeding through posts, simply scroll past the ones with quotes in them.
No! Do not drop the quote feature.
It's excellent if it's used properly. I don't understand why some people don't know how to use it... it's right there in big blue letters and all you have to do is CLICK on the thing on the relevant post you are responding to, it's not that hard, LOL.
Another forum I used to partake in had a limit of 3 quotes-within-quotes, meaning if you tried to quote something that had already been quoted twice before, it would refuse to let you. It appears these forums do not have such a system so you end up getting a quote within a quote, within a quote, within a quote, within a quote, within a quote, etc....
They just need to revamp it a little bit and add some restrictions and be fine. There are some posters here I see commenting all the time who don't seem to grasp how to use this simple feature and I must say it drives me nuts but I felt it would be rude to try to explain it to them.
05-26-2018 07:21 PM
@duggmills wrote:If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift.
Or quote, and then delete out all but the relevant line, no c&p required.
05-26-2018 08:19 PM
05-26-2018 08:21 PM
05-26-2018 08:22 PM
@southern*sweet*tea wrote:
Or quote, and then delete out all but the relevant line, no c&p required.
I definitely vote with/for @southern*sweet*tea for a couple of reasons.
I agree that the best way is to use the quote and then delete all but the relevent sentences like I've done in this post. Dashed lines or quote marks are useless when trying to distinquish the original text from the reply, IMO.
05-26-2018 08:22 PM
@berserkerplanet wrote:
•But not simple for those of us on mobile devices
Sure it is. I do it the same way on my phone as I just did here in this quick reply. Manually copy and paste precise snippets.
It might be easy for you but not others like myself and the poster the OP mentioned 🙂
05-26-2018 08:25 PM
@berserkerplanet wrote:
•But not simple for those of us on mobile devices
Sure it is. I do it the same way on my phone as I just did here in this quick reply. Manually copy and paste precise snippets.
See? That's one of my points: I can't tell whether "•But not simple for those of us on mobile devices" is part of your response or whether you're quoting someone else. Is that little mark preceding the sentence supposed to be some kind of a clue? I can barely tell what it is. Is it a bullet point? Is that a common symbol that means, "Someone else said this, and I've just copied it and pasted it into my comment?"
05-26-2018 08:28 PM
@duggmills wrote:This is my Rant Du Jour;
I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject.
Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses having to find the elusive southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment. I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender. Though I love her dearly, admittedly, I don't know her personally.
Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift. Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.
_____________________
Separating your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.
It's nearly as annoying as when someone responds to a particular poster, and does not do a quote.
You need to scroll back to see what they were agreeing with/grousing about/commenting on.
Sometimes the particular poster has made several posts, and no one knows which post they are even responding to without the quote.
05-26-2018 08:44 PM
I often resemble that rant! Have to admit, though, sometimes it's fun.
05-26-2018 08:44 PM
@buyselljack2016 wrote:
@duggmills wrote:This is my Rant Du Jour;
I'm passively annoyed when posters feel the grip of and freely submit to some preconceived anxiety arising from some unanswered awareness of guilt that requires repeating entire original posts only to proceed in lock step sans any grammatically correct form of separation to then only add some comment of questionable value to the presented subject.
Sure mate, I know you've been aware of the the same issue. And yes, it does dramatically slow everyone's progressions through the array of responses having to find the elusive southern border between the tedious repetition of original post and responders comment. I have to admit one of my closest and dearest friends here on the forum is a repeat offender. Though I love her dearly, admittedly, I don't know her personally.
Is there redress to this injustice to a smooth path through threads? Yes. If you wish to add opinion or rule to a thread, please don't underestimate the conceptual abilities of other members by repeating an entire original post.
If there's something specific within that original comment, simply copy and paste that specific line you wish to contest or uplift. Don't forget quotation marks to help us grasp when you have completed the tedium of redundancy and: Now Comes; your salient comment.
_____________________
Separating your comment from the original post can easily by accomplished using a line of dash marks as shown above to speed us through comments.
It's nearly as annoying as when someone responds to a particular poster, and does not do a quote.
You need to scroll back to see what they were agreeing with/grousing about/commenting on.
Sometimes the particular poster has made several posts, and no one knows which post they are even responding to without the quote.
That's true. I tend to lean heavily on the quote function for that reason; my apologies if that has offended anyone. If I feel I can use quick reply without a quote, I try to use that. But you are right~~a response can just hang there and you have no idea what the comment was that the response refers to.